Fun fact: Jeff Prosperie mentioned the axe incident in one of his judge tapes while judging I think the cadets? He said "If I can dodge an axe I can dodge that"

That first one was quite some axe-ident.

i remember when my indoor director said this on a saturday 12 hour rehearsal “rhythm x got a 27” and i said “is that even possible”

I like how your “bleeps” are rimshots

Okay, so I'm a clarinetist. And this story comes from my sophomore year in high school. In the climax of the third movement of our show. We had a set that involved a gradual accel. To a sprinting Jazz run. After this set we transition straight into the woodwind feature that began our Fourth Movement. This Next set was very difficult to get to. So this Jazz run set Involved three lines running past each other And I was towards the end of one of these lines. One time when we were rehearsing this set. The string that held drill book of the person in front of me snapped as she began to speed up causing the drill book to fall. With no time to react I tripped over it. I did a martial arts style roll on the ground and popped back up to my set just in time to play the woodwind feature. Now my favorite part of this story Is that only two people saw me do this The person behind me and the woodwind caption head who is in the Box. And when it was her turn to hold the mic she said something like " AJ I have no idea how the heck you did that, but that was amazing." and handed the mic over So now the entire band was wondering what the heck this kid did.

The timpanist whose sheet music fell is currently teaching timpani at my school. He's the ex-principal timpanist of the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra and his knowledge is extensive and invaluable. He also doesn't like to talk about the incident. Edit: He did not get fired but rather retired.

A story that I'll never forget is from my Jr. High School concert band. We had a percussionist who was a great kid, but was learning disabled. It was unfortunate that some people made fun of him (it was the 80's, so we hadn't figured out the whole bullying thing quite yet). He happened to be playing crash cymbals on this particular song, and a couple of trumpet players were giving him a hard time. He had enough and threw one of the cymbals at them like a frisbee - and he threw it hard! Luckily, he missed and hit a music stand instead. I don't want to imagine the decapitation I could have witnessed if he had connected with his target.

My band director marched on the same line the crown 2014 dude, he says he was in shock and it was one of the best recovery moments in DCI

One time during a finals run a couple years back, a flutist who wasn’t very physically inclined nor really liked marching band missed her spot and caused a tuba tumble, long story short, we got fourth

CRASHY BONGO. If you don’t know there is sheet music for this out there now. This was also at the Chicago regional like last weekend

We were at the spring concert doing the hardest song we’d done all year and I was on mallets and I was the only one that played in the first measure and my bd was counting me off and I started a beat early

As far as drumming disasters: We were mid show and the resonators literally fell out of the vibes... one of the band parents ran onto the field after the show, picked them up, and ran off the field with them. Definitely one of my favorites.

"The Best Drumline Show in the World" happened in my circuit. It was actually a high school line (who just so happened to be one of our biggest outdoor band competitors), and the rumor is that their show wasn't finished in time for a very early qualifying competition. They ended up being bumped to scholastic world soon after, in the same season.

I was marching bass 1 my freshman year, and we were playing our show for all the other schools in the valley. During our 3rd movement, I was marching backwards and bass 2 stepped on my toe, causing me to topple over and nearly trip the rest of the bassline. I managed to recover pretty fast, but my pride never did. Not to mention that I had to watch myself fall the next week when we were analysing the run.

- 2 Cymbal Drops - Off beats - Giant flag (covers whole field) is tangled. All that in a single live performance. We still placed 2nd cus of musicality

During worlds competition my sisters mallet broke the tip of it bounced off. For a solid second she kept playing without the top. She was able to find another and recover. I was so proud of her.

Drum disaster: during a highschool competition at a college about 3 hours from our school, we were prepared for our show. First thing I realize is: well, crap, my bass drum mallet holder is broken. Good news is that it didn’t break during the show, it broke afterwards when I put the mallets back in. Bigger disaster: during the same show, about half way through, the drum line kneels in an arc at center field, and then I hear angry whispers from my fellow percussionists. It turns out, that our center snares snares were OFF for the entire show, and we couldn’t turn them on in this small time period. We didn’t make finals...

During a finals run in marching band, I had a quad solo with nobody else playing on the field. (Keep in mind that I'm the only quad.) So the 2nd movement ends, and the drum major goes to count us off, but she started conducting really weirdly, and she ended up starting us a beat early. So there I was, in control of the entire field's tempo, and which foot they were on. I ultimately made the decision to improvise the solo based on which foot the clarinets were on, and I had to make the end of the solo really obvious as to let everyone know "hey, the solo is ending". Wild shit man

My vibes literally collapsed as I was moving them halfway through the season (Adams in case anyone was wondering) Luckily we had almost a week before our next performance...

At my school, the eighth graders (me) get to try out marching band for the last football game. So, basically, we didn't have enough snares so my friend and I had to SHARE a drum. So, we decided that he would do the halftime show, and I would march back to the band room. But, he refused to let me have the drum. Therefore, I decided that the best way for me to get it back was to, you know... let's just say that my foot happened to be in the same spot as he was walking and, um... He fell, then 2 bass drums fell and then all heck broke loose. And that's how I became first snare. My friend is bass 2, the worst bass. lmao.

Our drum tech decided to tune the drums right before we went onto the field for competition . He tightened my snare head too tight and ended up snapping it. I had to pretend to play through our whole performance... he was not back again the next year.

Our Bass 5 was a senior and it was his first year on drumline. He worked super hard to get on the line and we were all proud of him. Well, the first competition rolls around, and it was a really clean run. Since I was sick (and not able to perform), I recorded the whole thing and went back to the bus to show the basses their really clean 32nd note run. I ask where our Bass 5 is at, and it turns out that about 5 minutes after the run, his knee dislocated. He wasn't able to perform for the rest of the season

I marched Bari Sax for my high school and my worst disaster was during a competition where my harness *freaking broke in half* in the middle of the show. So I kept on marching but I couldn't play because I was weak and was barely able to hold it, but I made it to the end of the show safely. We ended up getting 2nd place.

So this past marching band season, we had just finished performing our halftime show. And as we were marching off the field, our fouth bass tripped on a bag of footballs someone forgot to move, hit his head, and cracked a rim. Luckily he was alright afterwards

My sophomore year in high school marching band, we had a performance pretty late in the day (around 7:30-8:00) and it was super windy and one of our props broke from the wind (it was super tall) which sucked but I also fell face first over my tenor drums during that performance which really sucked because I had to almost dead sprint to my dot (thank god it was in the back of the field) and it hurt. But for some reason I was able to get up and continue to the end of the show. We got the best visual performance score ;)

My high school marching band was doing a run through of our 2019 show towards the end of rehearsal for that day. We are supposed to walk into the field like normal people and mess around with each other. Me and a nother bass drum proceed to skip with each other. My base drum then falls off of the harness and rolled on the the ground I pick it up put it back on then continue with the run through of the show. It had turned out that the rim of the drum had split.

The second missing equipment show at 8:48 is at my school!

Yes! Durand Marching Railroaders, 2017. My freshman year. Our show was called Contagion (you can find our finals run on yt!) and it was the first weekend in October, AKA our first competition of our 2017 MCBA season. It was a particularly windy day, and we were using sandbags to hold down our pit equipment that was light like our bass drum and tam tam. Well, it’s our time to perform so we rush out of the endzone in order over to the 50 and set up, and as we finally settle down and prepare to be announced, the wind kicks up, the bass drum and tam tam fall over. Stands bend and break, heads break, panic was had! We rushed to fix it and did the best we could before our drum major brought us up. We still took 1st and swept Flight IV (even though there were only 2 of us there 😂). But yeah, what a horror story! Windy ways never bode well and as a senior now, my classmates still talk about it. I’ve been in the front ensemble all 4 years btw :)

"gets axe thrown at him" "IS THE DRUM OK??????"

When I was in 8th grade we were at a band festival. We were walking from our practice area to the stage and my neck strap, holding my brand new 8,000 Yamaha bari sax, came off. I was holding it in my hands at the time of it breaking so I didn’t notice. Luckily one of the band moms who was holding a door pointed it out to me. She was a real life saver.

SJ State Spartan Band in the house!! I also love that Alan Christensen's epic save for Carolina Crown is on this list. As a cymbal player, I checked my straps super-often to avoid a breakage.

Two band stories: One: I remember all the times in my middle school band during practice when something funny would happen, like the band director's music falling off the stand when she was trying to turn it, and I was one of 3 other people who saw that, and since I play trumpet, I laughed right as I was going to play and it made a loud noise and I stopped playing and got myself under control but we stopped anyway. Two: during my 5th grade concert, a alto sax player had put a penny in his instrument and in the middle of the concert, just before we started another song, it came out and made a loud noise on the floor. My band director said to the audience, because we were switching pieces waiting for the percussion people to get sorted, "Parents, one of your kids is making money with their instrument." And everybody laughed. When I asked him later, he said that he put the penny in to see how it sounded but forgot to take it out. Lol!

OMG I HAD A DISASTER (Multiple! most happened this school year (so far Jr year of HS)) 1. I am a quint player and a drum major for my HS and dering my halftime show, maybe my 2ed or 1st this year, my quints got stuck in the upright position for the first song and a half! I tried to giggle it up/down, left/right to get it unjammed, nothing worked, un till it finally gave up and let go of the drum. I took the drum off the harness and put it back on in the playing position, and finished what I had left of the song. 2. Another time was when It was my song to conduct so I ran to the sidelines to take off my drum, my drum + harness was stuck on. It felt like it took forever to take off, but it was not that long. It was just silent for that time. I ran up the podium and started conducting.

I play sousaphone and our show is called “Between the Lines” so our opener was the Bluecoats 2014. so i was backwards marching in the area i always do, and i marched into a prop. as a first year sousa you would think it went horrible. but i fell down lkke all the way and somehow managed to get up before the next set started. and we made finals because of my recovery. oh and we also had Crowns 2019 closure that year haha.

One time, I was in a competition, and I had a solo, a duet, and then a trio, and I messed up on both solo and duet, but then I recovered, and got the best performance award right after that😋

Ive learned only after 2 weeks of being in marching band that remembering your music, wether its needed or not, is very helpful. Ive had wrong plays in concerto band because I couldn’t turn my music page and didn’t know what i had to play next. I ended up guessing where to start after fixing my page while being lost.

my concert snare fell over while playing the school march at a performance

I had my snare stand collapse in the middle of a song while recording. The snare falls and I caught it between my knees and tried to continue playing. the other guys were laughing so hard the recording was ruined. We kept it for years just for laughs.

7:56 - sickest bongo roll ever 8:09 - SCV Cymbal line wishes to be them 9:46 - sickest drummer

I've fallen with a snare before. HS Band Camp we were going through the halls to get to the practice field. I went through a 2 door doorway that usually has a pole in the middle. At this time there was no pole, but the metal to hold the pole was still there. I tripped and slammed down in absolutely no grace

So I attended Berklee in Boston for a few years and was taking a totally sweet afro/cuban drum lab with the amazing Eguie "Eggy" Castrillo... Anyway... This very nice lab has full wall sized windows to the hallway; it's also full to the brim with equipment, a few drum sets, practice pads on stands, and some 30 or so congas. In the 2nd week, the 7-10 of us students are gathering and Eggy comes in, asks everyone to grab 2 congas each. I grab one and mistakenly bump, more so just brush another conga with my hip, it tips... This conga hits another and that goes flopping on the floor, rocking back and forth. This leads to someone trying to grab it quickly and brushing another conga which hits another, which sends more.. until they are all 20+, except maybe one or two standing, are just bobbing back and forth on the floor to slow stops. Dead silence. ...................... ............................ I wanted to just disappear.... Please.. Please... Eguie is dying laughing, we all start laughing. .. Thank you, thank you thank you. After the fray he explains that it happens more than you think, once one goes, they all go! Either way, big oof.

0:04 The thing that happened to this cymbal player happened to me in the middle of a post game show. But when it happened to me, I dropped the strap and rested the cymbal in my left hand so I could finish the show.

I have two stories, both from my Junior Year of High School 1. We were in Concert Band practicing for our Spring Contest when the mallet came off of one of our Marimba player's sticks and went flying across the band. I sat almost directly across and got to see most of it happen. 2. In Marching Band my Junior year we used doors as our props and we had parents put them in their places for each competition or football game. The first competition of the season, one of the doors was set wrong and one of our Tuba players ran into it and almost crushed a Trumpet player between him and the door. The same competition, one of our Baritones had to run fast to a set and almost went sliding when he tried to stop.

Good morning! 10:49 That actually fits the sound for La Grange by ZZ Top.

once i couldnt find my mallets and it took me like 3 minutes and it was during a performance and everybody was waiting for me

I fell once on the practice field I'm a freshman who plays tenors so I was not used to how heavy they were so after practice finished, I was walking off the field (which was basically dug into the ground cuz it had slopes on all sides) but I had to pick up my sticks that were laying on the slope and as I was crouched down facing up the slope I tried standing up but quickly realized how hard it was to stand back up with tenors on so I fell back down the slope and my drums rolled off and over my face, very much hurt Also all our basses forgot there sticks at q parade so they used extra quad and snare socks

This year at DCI I saw Boston Crusaders' bass 5 fall down, pretty rough!

Everyone else : *worried about the musicians* Me: OMG ARE THE DRUMS OK?!!?

I’m seven months late to post this, but my drum disaster was that I had on bass five in the stands (28 inch diameter) and while the drumline was exiting the stands for our show, our tenor player just left his drums on the ground and I tripped over them. The worst part is that the bass drum didn’t come off the carrier, so I like got bent in half and looked like a scorpion, and man did it hurt. But I’m fine now and I’m on the tenor line this year!

Literally last night during practice my J bar just snapped in half and my quads were hanging on by the thread. It was silent and then the bar fell and made a loud noise.

I’ve done the old dropped stick during parade chase. That’s always a treat and not embarrassing at all.

I had my bass drum on and didn't the the tenors right in front of me so I tripped on them, gashed my shin with the rim, and almost rolled off with my drum. It was bloody and I couldn't march after a while :D

I also had my cymbal strap break. And of course it happened during The Star Spangled Banner as well. But I wasn't as composed as this kid and salute the flag. Bravo!!!!

two disasters: 1. When I was in eight grade. my school performed a christmas show with the highschool. I played egg shaker, and for my part I had to go to the front of the stage to get the audience into the groove of the song. I got a little too into it, and my shaker flew out of my hand into the audience, and hit a little girl in the head. she was ok, but I felt terrible. 2. I'm in 10th grade now. I play bass drum. For one game, I was filling in for our bass 4 member. I'm kind of short, so bass 4 was huge on me. It still is huge one me.... We don't have a big enough drumline to march, so we just play cadences and march from the school to the stadium. Once we got to the stadium, our snare player accidently dropped a stick. I didn't see it, and ended up tripping and falling over it. The bass drum rolled a little bit WITH ME STILL HARNESSED and stopped rolling after about a fourth of a rotation. I'm short, so when the drum stopped, I was left lying face down on my stomach on top of the bass drum. I was too short to reach the ground with my feet, so I was stuck in the harness on top of the bass drum. Fun times....

I remember in high school my junior year at our last competition that year, the tenor player fell down while marching during the final song. Thankfully he got it back on before the performance ended.

Reminds me of an accident that happened in my high school. During my sophomore year in concert band we played this fantastically intense song that included a 10-bongo solo section in the middle. That in of itself was amazing but the ending of us playing it at our end of the year concert wasn't so much. Our timpani player had a bunch of big hits at the end and all of the drums raised their arms up in the air for effect. Well, seems on one of those hits he gave it a bit too much of a whack, as one of the timpani sticks snapped and went flying. Thankfully it hit no one, but they were special timpani sticks our director bought from Japan. Needless to say, he wasn't the happiest with that realization. Song got a standing ovation though, it was sick.

I am a seventh grade and my band had mpa recently. My friend, who is a bit of a klutz, and often dropsthe percussion 2 and 3 instruments, made a record for the amount of things he dropped at our mpa. The MOST important concert of our entire year. And he dropped 7 DIFFERENT instruments. And 5 of them were on stage. So yeah, that kinda sucked. Btw we got a good in our general performance, and got an excellent on our sight-reading performance.

During the axe one I physically recoiled

During my sophmore year indoor season, we were at the beginning of a performance and one of our cymbal players's cymbal fell through the strap and she was able to recover and the techs later said that that was the best recovery they had seen

During a full practice performance, during the opening I managed to launch my snare from the harness. I caught it, remounted and started playing again. Everyone but the director thought it was hilarious, but I got a solid ass chewing afterwards

Dude, I’m so happy I found your channel. I was in the drumline in high school, bass line, then snare, then tenors for two years, section leader my senior year. I’ve had the itch for corps-style drums for a while and I was starting to lose hope that anyone was as much of a geek about it as I was/am. But then you showed up!! I’m excited to binge your content. Keep it up!!

2:53 I had something similar aswell in middle school I was playing glockenspiel with almost broken black small mallets and the head came off during rehearsals That was a bad situation to be in....

I had a cymbal strap come loose during the SSB at a Veteran's Day concert a couple of years ago. To make things even better, the cymbal landed on my glockenspiel. I ended up getting the attention of one of the other percussionists and she played the necessary crashes on a suspended cymbal while I worked on fixing the strap. Also, I played the bottom bass for 3 years in my college marching band and could not see the ground directly before me. Before the games, we would parade march from the warmup area to the stadium. One time the drum majors decided to march the band over one of those concrete parking lot bars and I had no way to see it coming with the other band members in front of me. I naturally tripped on it and that caused me to get chinned by the carrier's crossbar and the impact bent one of the hooks holding the drum on the carrier in the process. The drum got some scratches, but it was an old piece of junk anyhow.

I once did an orchestra concert in London, and I ended up travelling down on the train from Manchester (UK) with the orchestral management team. I and the rest of the percussion section had set the instruments up outside college the night before so that the instrument truck could be loaded. Sadly, there was snow and ice for miles around and the truck never arrived. We ended up having to hire 2 sets of timpani and all the percussion we needed, as well as two harps and 4 double basses for half of the section, on the train down. The gig ended up going really well!

During her first show, my aunt was carrying the bass drum for her high school and fell. She got back up and didn’t miss a beat Also, at my indoor percussion comp yesterday, I was moving my rack out and accidentally bumped into our guitar player and one of our crash cymbals fell. The thing that made it just slightly more awkward was that our band director was there and the guitar player’s boyfriend was helping me move the rack

at my first marching band show of the season last year (i'm in drumline) the person playing bass 5 fell backward while marching but got up within seconds and recovered really well!

I got to see crashy bongo live, it was awesome! They were the only group to get a standing ovation.

I remember, in high school, we were rolling our mallet percussion instruments around the field to the other side to set them up, and as I was rolling one of them, which was a marimba, it got caught in a crack, and tipped over. Luckily, though, I had someone with me while I was pushing the marimba, and helped me quickly pick it right back up, and continued onward.

I was playing the marimba at this concert i had to play on a high octave ( we needed about a 2 octave range of playing). my friend was on the low octave and thare was no G on the high octave so i didnt play G. That was the only improvement i made in the moment really.

I'm the bass drummer in the triangle drop video. I hadn't seen this video and I was very eager to see if my video made it into this video. I died laughing when I was it pop in the "concert percussion" section of the video. Thanks for throwing us in there!

2:20 Thats 1st suite in E flat by Gustav Holst, played it for this last all-state band. Funnily enough i had that bass drum part, and dropped the mallet when i hit it at the end. Had to grab my other bass mallet, but it was VERY loud.

In my first year of marching band, (I was taking the snare drum) we had two parades, the second one was in front of the whole town as we marched down the road. Right in the heart of the parade my stick slipped out of my hand. (It was wintertime and I was wearing gloves) I kept going, and tried to fake it until my instructor handed me the guys next to me stick.

Thanks. I was eating dinner at 9:47 mark on this video...Thanks! LOL

Man this video was a while back, but yep! Had a friend who played tenors, at our high school performance at finals, one of the metal rods on her carrier actually snapped in half! Carried the tenors all the way to the end of the movement, and then played the rest of the show with a different pair of tenors. Crazy stuff

once my school band was practicing for the homecoming parade and one of our cymbal players had to use a cheaper set. while he played, one of the cymbals BENT against the other and we had to get our director to pop it back the right way. good times 😌

Last year (2018-2019 season) my band was marching into the stadium. I was on cymbals as I was in front that year. They guy in front of me apparently hadn't tightened his cymbal straps and right on the big final crash at the end of our cadence, his cymbal falls off. He recovered good and picked it up and continued marching in as normal, but it was funny as hell

I have two incidents from my sophomore year of college at Pitt State University (KS) in 2008-2009. It was my only year in front ensemble (I was on the line every other year). I played all of the auxiliary parts for our halftime shows while the other 3 up front usually played a combination of vibes, marimba, xylophone, and glockenspiel. I had already established a reputation as being able to play louder than basically all the other members of the line and front ensemble, and the guy marching bass 5 had a... softer... playing style. So I quickly took over as the "boom-crash" for the national anthem for the season. Well, fast forward to mid September and we are on the field Saturday morning for rehearsal before the game. Last thing we do before breaking for lunch and meeting up for the March over is run through pregame. I guess after about 4 weeks of abuse, the massive bass drum we had rigged up on the frame had decided it was done taking abuse and stopped resisting the urge for my mallet to be on the inside of the drum... Needless to say, the director cut the band off to address me when I wasn't "boom-crashing" only to start cackling hysterically when I sheepishly replied I broke the drum head. Incident two happened later that year, during an awfully cold, rainy playoff game. Instead of having a front ensemble, we marched cymbals for pregame and halftime. I had won a competition to "dot the i" for our pregame show when we spelled out "Pitt" (we usually went with PSU, but being a playoff game, we went with a "script Pitt). I go out and do my thing, dancing in my spot and playing cymbals during welcome to the jungle, when I hit them together JUUUUUUST right and invert one DURING the climax of the song... Obviously I just kept going like nothing happened, but our drumline coach was just shaking his head and laughing when we came off the field. The following year I moved to bass 5 and before handing me the mallets, made sure to remind me that I don't have to hit it as hard as possible. 😂😂😂

During a rehearsal in high school I was sitting in front of the percussionists playing tuba and all of a sudden I got hit by a triangle beater. I was very surprised to say the least

The biggest disaster I have ever had was when I was a a drumline competition, I was a rack player and I had a triangle part but when we were moving the equipment out to the stadium, somehow the triangle beater fell off and I didn’t notice it until like literally 1 minute before the show started. Thank god one of the directors had an Allen wrench so he gave to me so I can play triangle part and even after all that, we still got a really good result.

A personal disaster for me (although it’s pretty minute) is that I was playing a vibraphone and I accidentally smacked the string holding the bar extremely hard (although it just gave a very dull B flat sound) but one time my band accidentally triggered a lockdown because some idiot put the light switch and the lockdown button next to each other in the auditorium. The entire school went crazy while we ended up losing our shit after five minutes.

When I was in high school (1976), I was the #1 snare and our band was marching in the halftime show at the Fiesta Bowl. While waiting to get on the field, we were sitting way up in the stands and I dropped one of my sticks like two stories down through the stands and it was the only pair of sticks I had. I marched and played with one stick. Mortifying. My director was not pleased. Never recovered that stick and no one else had any spares.

(My Freshman Year) We were in our towns parade. 5 min before we started the senior drummer decided to tighten my marching snare. Almost instantly it went *pop* and 2 cracks were in it. Had to play the rest of the parade like that. :D

As a hopefully future tenor drummer, i am now s c a r e d

I love watching your marching band videos, because I can’t be in one myself! I am an oboist/bassoonist!

It’s funny that you made this video, me and my high school indoor ensemble were in that show. Loved the video!!

It was my first concert ever we were doing bells and snair and for twinkle twinkle little star everyone was on bells so we turned are snails of and putt are bells on top of the snair drums and I was on snair next so I put down these bells how my teacher told us to you know with the big side down to make no noise and then the worst happened it fell in the middle of a song and every heard it and they all stoped playing and looked at me I cryed but then got back in and kept playing and then some other kids trombone slide came of and we had to have a extra minute to get it back on cause he had to oil it and before the show a trumpet players mouthpiece case got stuck in his bell and during the show it sounded horrible but then it shot out and hit a flute in the head and she dropped her flute

Good morning. I’d like to suggest that you go on the aged out podcast. It seems like they’ve done a lot of United and crown vets, but they haven’t done a ton of Internet personalities it seems. Be really cool to see

Last year when I was on Bass 4, my harness SNAPPED in half and the bass drum fell on my foot mid performance. I ran up to pit and started playing the drum on the ground all of percussion followed me and we started playing on the ground like it was part of the show. It ended up docking percussion 20 points.

This was in all district honor orchestra. I was playing 2nd violin and practicing our pieces as a full orchestra when this female 1st violin had her bow broke like that vine girls bow did. So the organizer got her a new bow and it broke as well. Then they got her another bow and that one broke. Finally on her fourth bow it didn’t brake and we kept on with the performance.

Launched a concert bass drum mallet head during MEPA finals for indoor in 2003, and I've had a few cymbal malfunctions in orchestra and concert band settings. The latest was playing a filling in on a small high school's pit. I was using a handsonic for several sets of effects, and put the gong on the infrared beam you wave your hand across... I didn't anticipate the stage lights knocking that out so first night I kept hearing this weird low ring all first act. When the lights came on with the curtain raise it triggered the gong and it sustained the ring through the whole first act... I never noticed the trigger because I had a typical big timpani hit covering it.

2:33 the guy on the far right is like "MY GOD!!!"

im a trumpeter in middle school and not too long ago one of my tuning slides came of during a song but thankfully I had a couple measures of rests and that gave me enough time to put the tuning slide back in

On our way to a competition my freshmen year (literally on the way to perform), huge gust of wind hit and knocked our chimes over Sophomore year, band camp rehearsal - Promark sticks and mallets are known for sometimes not having ample glue supplied to the stick Last hits of the show were quadruple forte hits, and the head of one of our marimba's mallets slammed off, bounced off the F and hit our drum major in the throat

Story Time: Fellow tenor players, you know the stoppers on the Randy May crossbars with the really sharp edges? Well right before the last marching performance of the year, which is a parade to start off the Alma Highland Festival, a friend of mine on tenors was adjusting the screw inside the bar when the drums fell, and well, off goes her finger tip. To make things even better, a clown ran over and performed first aid, all while the pipe band/Alma College band was practicing Amazing Grace.

hey please remake the Bongo solo

One drum fail I liked was this season pacific crest 2019 bass five at San Antonio. Man had a wardrobe malfunction and still kept marching like the trooper he was

So at one of our high school band comps, after the field show when we did the drumline exhibition, the final downbeat at the end of our cadences caused one of our cymbals to invert. Luckily it was at the very end, but it was still very funny to laugh at afterwards.

I love it when people just freeze with these accidents. Also I think he and the orchestra were just finishing the last movement of Pomp and Circumstances.

I actually had an slight accident a few days ago as a tenor drum player. We were playing for the senior parade in our high school - marching through the halls. There were a lot of doorways and poles you can't really get through with the quads so you have to turn the quads 90 degrees and turn your self sideways multiple times. One time during that performance I accidently turned my drums 90 degrees too forcefully and the quads came off the harness luckily they didn't fall since I had my hands positioned right holding on to them. Band director did not notice except my friend Dustin (snare player) behind me was like "you alright there buddy?" I managed to get them back on just barely before we had to turn around and go back through the doorway. Several of the Kindergarteners saw and were freaking out I remember (Our school has an elementary and high school side btw). I told the band director after we got back to the band room.

The only disaster that happened in my marching band was all the percussion skipped our biggest parade of the year. Only people that showed up was a snare (not the lead player) and a Bass Drum. Great cadence.